Not exact matches
Recent
reports across the nation have detailed multiple arrests of professional football players for
using drugs like
synthetic marijuana, K2 or Spice, with other instances ending in trips to the hospital for the highly trained athletes.
In June, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
reported 15 deaths in the first few months of 2015 related to
synthetic marijuana use.
Past year
use of K2 / Spice, referred to as «
synthetic marijuana» in the survey, was
reported at 3.7 percent among 12th graders, down from 11.3 percent five years ago.
Often perceived as a safe legal alternative to illicit drug
use,
synthetic marijuana use was associated with 11,561
reports of poisonings in the United States between January 2009 and April 2012.